1816, "pertaining to the brain," from French cérébral (16c.), from Latin cerebrum "the brain" (also "the understanding"), from PIE *keres-, from root *ker- (1) "top of the head" (see horn (n.)). Meaning "intellectual, clever" is from 1929. Cerebral palsy attested from 1824, originally a general term for cases of paralysis that seemed to be traceable to "a morbid state of the encephalon." Later used in a more specific sense from c. 1860, based on the work of English surgeon Dr. William Little.
实用例句
1. His poetry is very cerebral.
他的诗富涵理性。
来自《权威词典》
2. Your left cerebral hemisphere controls the right - hand side of your body.
你的左半脑控制身体的右半身.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. His mature composi tions are generally considered the more cerebral and crabbed.
他成熟的作品一般被认为是触动理智的和难于理解的.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. The patient died from acute cerebral haemorrhage.
患者死于急性脑溢血.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. Washington struck me as a precarious place from which to publish such a cerebral newspaper.
